Bench-plane



(No Model.)

(1 A. MEEKINS.

BENCH PLANE. No. 295,414. Patented Mar. 18, 1884-.

UNITED STATES CHARLES A. MEEKINS, OF NEW' HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

BENCH- PLAN E.

SPEOIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,414, dated March 18, 1884.

Application filed May 31,1883. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. MEEKINs, of New Hartford, in the county of Litchtield and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bench- Planes, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where the plane, which may be partly of wood and partly of metal, or substantially wholly of wood or Wl oly of metal. In the drawings I show it uith the bottom part composed of wood and the upper part of iron.

The letter Z) dinofes the chisel orplane-iron.

of the ordinary kind. The letter 0 denotes the cap-iron, which is novel in its construction; but it is secured to the plane-iron ,b, in substantially the ordinary way, by the connecting-screw d.

The letter 6 denotes what I call the rocking clamp-iron, because it has a rocking motion for effecting the adjustment of the planeiron and cap-iron on the studs or pivots a a; and it also serves in a novel manner the function of a clamp-ironthat is, it is the in1- portant factor in attaching the plane-iron and the cap-iron to the stock of the plane. This rocking clamp-iron runs under the cap-iron. The pin e, jointed somewhat loosely at the bottom to the rocking clamp-iron, projects up through the cap-iron, and upon the upper end bears the nut f, by means of which the plane-iron and cap-iron are clamped to the stockthat is, by running the nut down, the journal ends of the rocking clamp-iron press against the studs a a, and the plane-iron is forced firmly down upon its seat. This rocking clamp-iron has an extended part or lever end, 6'', the end of which is bifurcated, and takes hold of an annular groove in the adjusting-screw g, which is hung in the cap-iron. By manipulating this adj usting-screw the edge of the plane-iron may be nicely adjusted. The mode or mannerin which this is effected is not, perhaps, plain at a first glance; but the era planation is that by manipulating this adjust lug-screw the clamp-iron is It cred on pivots a, and carries the plane and cap irons with it in its up and down but not its rocking movements.

1 claim as my improvement- 1. In combination, the plane-body bearing the pivots, the plane-iron, the cap-iron at tached to the plane-iron, the longitudinallyrocking clamp-iron, adjust-ably connected to the cap-iron and bearing between its pointsof connection upon the pivots on the plane-body, all substantially as described.

2. The combination of the longitudinallyrocking clamp-iron e, loosely attached to capiron 0 by pin 0 and nut f, adjusting-screw g, plane-iron b, and plane-body a, with pivotbearings for the clamp-iron, all substantially as described.

CHARLES A. MEEKINS.

Witnesses:

SARA J. Snuonns, WM. E. Smonns. 

